France articles

Many US tech companies haven’t found France to be a very welcoming place recently. Authorities in the country told Facebook it must stop tracking non-users and sending data to the States earlier this year, and Google had its Paris headquarters…

Deezer has been a long-time player in the streaming music market with present in 180 countries around the world, but there’s one notably missing from the list: USA. Today the French company has announced it’s entering the crowded US market…

US tech companies have been experiencing a pretty difficult time in Europe lately, especially in France. Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are being sued by French anti-racist groups; anti-Uber protests are commonplace, turning violent last year; and now Google, which has…

Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are facing legal troubles in France, where three organizations are planning legal action against the internet giants for failing to comply with French law by not removing hate speech from their respective sites.

The use of ad blockers is always going to be a contentious issue, especially in the eyes of websites that rely on advertising as their main source of income. In France, several of the country’s biggest media sites have taken…

Google seems to be having some trouble with Europe’s tax laws. Last month, it was reported that Italian police suspect the company has evaded 227 million euros ($247.5 million) in taxes between 2009 and 2013. Now, French authorities have demanded…

Facebook has become the first major company to feel the fallout from the Safe Harbor agreement being ruled invalid last year after the French data protection authority gave the social networking site three months to stop some transfers of personal…

In response to the Paris terror attacks that took place last month, French law enforcement is reportedly considering blocking the use of the Tor anonymity network inside France and, during states of emergency, banning free and shared Wi-Fi connections.

A four-wheel electric vehicle with long arms that work independently will go into production at the end of next month in France. The Swincar E-Spider, dubbed the spider car, is designed to tackle the toughest off-road terrain and the steepest…

Uber has announced it has suspended UberPOP in France until further notice. The move follows a week that saw two of Uber's top executives in the country detained by police and violent protests against the service.

French media outlets today reported that two senior Uber executives have been taken into police custody in Paris as part of a probe into the company's UberPOP service. The pair are believed to be Uber Europe CEO Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and…

In an effort to further expand its reach in Europe, Netflix has launched its streaming video service in France. " On est là : netflix.fr", the company said in a tweet yesterday. (Translation: "Spoiler alert: We are here").
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Microsoft has seemingly big plans for its Xbox SmartGlass app, just last month the company updated the service to turn smartphones and tablets into TV controllers. Soon the company will be back with more updates that will allow users to…

Seizing an opening in Sprint and T-Mobile US's failure to announce a deal yet, French telecom operator Iliad has announced its interest in acquiring a controlling stake in the latter company, offering $15 billion in cash for 56.6% of the fourth-largest…

A new law went into effect Thursday in France that prohibits online booksellers from applying government-regulated discounts to the purchase price of books. The legislation, designed to protect local brick and mortar booksellers from what they believe is unfair competition…

Facebook has now released its Global Government Requests Report where we get a chance to see the numbers on data requests among other things. Although the second one of its kind, it will be the first transparency report to include…

If there weren't many reasons to admire the French lifestyle already, here is another one: they don't have to worry about responding official calls, texts, and emails after office hours. The French government has now made it illegal to work…

France's data protection watchdog on Wednesday fined Google 150,000 Euros ($204,000) after the search giant ignored a three month ultimatum to comply with French privacy laws. In addition to the fine, the watchdog, known as CNIL, also ordered Google to…

Spain's privacy watchdog has slapped Google with a fine of €900,000 ($1.23 million) for violating the country's data protection laws "when combining personal information from its many different online services and failing to inform users clearly on how it uses…

As expected, a controversial French anti-piracy measure known as the Hadopi law has been overturned and replaced with a system that issues automatic fines instead of disconnecting suspected copyright infringers from the Internet.

In the wake of the National Security Agency's PRISM internet surveillance and phone metadata collections efforts, it should probably come as little surprise at this point that the United States isn’t the only country in the world that covertly spies…

Hadopi, France's "three-strikes" anti-piracy law, could be in for sweeping changes or even discarded as officials once again ponder the controversial measure. According to the New York Times, France's administration is exploring the closure of the agency tasked with enforcing the…

According to The Telegram and sources close to French news outlet L'Express, politically-driven U.S. hackers were responsible for a cyberattack that occurred just days before French voters cast their ballots in April. Those sources claim hackers were able to infiltrate French…

Amazon has been hit with a $252 million tax bill by French authorities. Officials say the debt comes as a result of back taxes, interest and penalties that have accrued with regards to what they call the allocation of income…